This unique double degree enables you to study for one year at LSE in London, the UK’s media capital, and one year at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town – the highest-ranked university on the African continent, with close links to Cape Town’s media and film industry and NGO sector.
The programme will provide you with a critical exploration of mediation in the global context, examining processes of globalisation in relation to organisation, production, consumption and representation in media and communications. In our ever increasingly globalised world, international experience gained on one of our global programmes is invaluable and provides an excellent knowledge and experience base to work from.
2:1 degree or equivalent in social science, or another field with professional experience in media and communications (you must also meet the UCT entry requirements)
Year one: £20,904 (2018 entry, at LSE) Year two: TBC (at UCT)
On graduating, our students enter a variety of global careers including broadcasting, journalism, advertising, new media industries, political marketing, market research, regulation and policy, media management and research in both public and private sectors.
The first year at LSE lays solid theoretical and methodological foundation for future media and communications professionals to examine issues of media and communication within their political, social and cultural context. Please note that at LSE we do not provide practical training in journalism, production, campaigning or media management.
LSE is stimulating, cosmopolitan and very much part of the “real world”. Why LSE? We offer a unique opportunity to study the social sciences in a uni...